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8 reviews
Richard A. Posner

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

"Preparing" For The Future
Looking out for future risk into the future. For example, asteroids pose a long-term risk hundreds and thousands of years into the future. We have the technology now to map asteroids and safeguard our future. To a large extent this is not being done. There is a lack of scientific enthusiasm to do this. Global warming is another topic of interest. Glaciers are melting right now. The gravity of ...

Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications

3 reviews
Tim Poston, Ian Stewart

Dover Publications, 1996

WHY must we study topology? Want to know? Read this book!
This book gives many informations of applications of Topology. With their illustrations give us the more intuition and help us for more understanding with a situation in the reality life. AT First half of book, we can remember the theories of Calculus, Transversality and Stability and then brings us to how we can see the application these theories in our life, examples, in the domain of ...

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign

20 reviews
Edward J. Larson

Free Press, 2008

Vivid re-creation of 1800 election
Edward J. Larson's magnificent look at America's first disputed election manages to remain very suspenseful (what will Pennsylvania finally do?) even though we all know how it turned out. In brief, in the days before the 12th Amendment (and this election was precisely the reason why the 12th Amendment was enacted), electors cast their votes only for the president--the first runnerup would ...

Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education

13 reviews
Jeffrey Hart

Yale University Press, 2001

Enduring Questions with Elusive Answers
Hart is obviously concerned, deeply concerned about certain trends in higher education which he perceives to be neither "higher" nor more "educational" than others. On the contrary, he views them as having resulted in a cultural "catastrophe." In the Preface, he recalls a professor of his at Dartmouth, Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy, who once asserted that "the goal of education is the citizen. He ...

Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

1 review

School for Advanced Research Press, 2002

Superb Focus on Culture Underlying Catastrophe
This is one of those books where the Amazon.com referal system worked for me. I would never have found it otherwise. It is a timely book, and it has direct relevance to the 9-11 catastrophe because everything this book talks about in terms of "cultures of catastrophe" (one could call them cultures of oblivion or cultures of inattention) resonates with the findings of the joint congressional ...

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ...

21 reviews
Iain Murray

Regnery Publishing, 2008

Skewers the paradigms of the liberal environmental fascist movement
Iain Murray well-written book skewers the fundamental principles of the radical left environmental movement, and does it very artfully. Clearly, this is a compelling book which mastefully states the case of the failures of the environmental movement, and their `liberal fascistic" approach to society. Murray shows at the very beginning that the environmental movement focuses on (1) identifying ...

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture

16 reviews
Richard Firestone, Allen West, ...

Bear & Company, 2006

Worth Reading
For a 400-page book, this book is most certainly worth it and I could not put it down. "The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes" is one of the most serious works that I have ever read, and it was written by scientists who proposed that we are going through "cycles" of cosmic events as it seemed to be related to the one event that happened over 12,000 years ago in North America lands. This is no ...

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

46 reviews
Elizabeth Kolbert

Bloomsbury USA, 2006

I was not an environmentalist. Now I am.
This book will change the way you look at your impact on the world. Whether you consider the environment to be an important issue or not, it is well worth your time to read this short yet powerful book. The world is changing, fast, and it is becoming impossible to reasonably deny that fact. News reports are consistent: the world is warming faster than expected, and the results are found ...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

48 reviews
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Delta, 1990

Healing for the Heart and Head
I bought this book in the middle of a year-long battle with insomnia--not the typical life-changing trauma that brings many others to this book, but insomnia destroyed me both physically and emotionally. My doctor suggested anti-depressants, and a friend suggested Full Catastrophe Living. I never touched the anti-depressants. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the voice of calm all throughout this book, ...

Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization

52 reviews
David Keys

Ballantine Books, 2000

A truly fascinating history
This is truly one of the most fascinating theories in ancient history. A volcano that shaped the modern world by forcing the migration of the huns, the crop failures in the Middle East that led to the rise of Islam and the start of the barbarian migrations towards Rome. It is almost too hard to summarize but if you believe that climate can change history than this is the book that will provide ...

Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

7 reviews
Tony Hallam

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Theory of Mass Extinctions for the Serious Beginner
Other reviews on this page give a fair idea of the contents of this book and so, as with most of my science reviews, my main goal here is to describe the technical level so that potential readers can decide if this book is for them. (If you're interested, you can click above on "See all my reviews" for more. There are at least two pages.) This is especially urgent since one of the previous ...

Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe

3 reviews
Austin

Institute for Creation Research, 1995

A Whole New Way of Looking at the Earth and Its Past
Standard geology textbooks teach us that, while individual events may be rapid, geologic change (such as erosion) is very slow overall. Austin deftly dispenses with the straitjacket of uniformitarianism, and shows how the Grand Canyon could have been eroded rapidly. Instead of a little river acting over a lot of time, we had a large body of water (Floodwater and its remnants) acting over a short ...

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes, Revised and Updated Edition

32 reviews
Michael J. Panzner

Kaplan Publishing, 2008

Credit Default swaps make up the fastest growing segment of the $415 trillion derivatives market
1. Hedge funds are structured around a performance-based compensation system. Hedge fund advisors are paid an incentive fee based on how well they do. Hedge fund advisors get a 20 percent cut above a preset benchmark, in addition to a 2 percent fee, of the total funds under management. Many hedge funds have become comfortable using large amounts of debt to boot returns. Many on Wall Street switch ...

Catastrophe Theory for Scientists and Engineers
Robert Gilmore

Dover Publications, 1993

Catastrophe theory attempts to study how the qualitative nature of the solutions of equations depends on the parameters that appear in the equations. This advanced-level treatment describes the mathematics of catastrophe theory and its applications to problems in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering. 28 tables. 397 black-and-white illustrations. 1981 edition.

Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

3 reviews
Susan Buck-Morss

The MIT Press, 2002

Daddy Stalin and Warbucks: Friends 'Til the End
Buck-Morss's tale of the sputtering, guttering end of the modern Fordist disciplinary project both in the U.S.A and in the Soviet Union is a stunner. Most compelling are the historical insights -- told with particular elegance through the comparison of patriotic and advertising images -- that show how similar both projects really were! Some of the historical tidbits stick in the mind never to be ...

The Corinthian Catastrophe

4 reviews
George E. Gardiner

Kregel Publications, 1985

look at the scriptures
This is one of the most honest views on the subject that I have encountered. If you read this book with and open mind and put aside what you have been "told" and follow the scriptural references,you will cleary understand what the author is saying. I have done alot of research on this subject and it falls in line with what the book points out.. the fact that it negates alot of what people ...

Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen

14 reviews
Mark Buchanan

Three Rivers Press, 2002

One of the best
This is the book that I would like to have written. Although being a popular account, it is scientifically accurate and carefull in its suggestions, always informing the reader what is consolidated science and what is scientific speculation. In contrast to a previous review, I have read all the pages of this book. Since I am a physicist working in this very subject (self-organized criticality), ...

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

32 reviews
Graham Allison

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

Sobering and Encouraging
Graham Allison's book is at once sobering and encouraging. The revelations about the A.Q. Khan nuclear "marketplace" in Pakistan is chilling and gives reason for profound concern. I appreciate his ability to take a rather complex and aecane subject and make it accessible to lay readers. For thirty years I have studied and worked on nuclear issues knowing that nations had it in their interests not ...

Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945

4 reviews
Raul Hilberg

Harper Paperbacks, 1993

Don't fault a book for sticking to its scope
I agree that most studies of atrocities in WW2 may focus excessively on the Jewish Holocaust to the detriment of other groups. However, the title of this book specifically designates it as a study of the "JEWISH" catastrophe. Hilberg aptly addresses the topic. Don't fault a book for being precise and sticking to its designated scope.

Catastrophe! the Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008

With an introduction by Professor McGuire Gibson, this up-to-date account describes the state of the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad and chronicles the damage done to archaeological sites by illicit digging. Contributors include Donny George, John M. Russell, Katharyn Hanson, Clemens Reichel, Elizabeth C. Stone, and Patty Gerstenblith. Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name opening at the Oriental Institute April 10, ...

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